Thanks! Ordered the Laketown Chase and another Dol Goldur battle thing. Cannot stop this castle brick building train!
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Thanks! Ordered the Laketown Chase and another Dol Goldur battle thing. Cannot stop this castle brick building train!
21st century cowboy
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If green later is on the cover then we will definitely be getting a set or two for him.
Also that batman fig does have the dawn of justice cowl. Plus if you watch the trailer there is a draft new space suit/angel suit batman and a cyborg figure. I can't wait.
BentBricks
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There are websites that help you find good sales and clearance prices for new stuff.
My favorite is http://toysnbricks.com/
Check out LEGO's official website. LEGO.com. They have sales on there, but the real deals are when they do clearances which shows up on their deals page.
Amazon has warehouse deals on returned items, but some people find that some of the returned items are not complete. Luckily the few times I've bought from Amazon warehouse, my set was complete.
If you don't mine some harder work and used items, you can often find people selling bulk LEGO at a very inexpensive price. I forget the rule of thumb of what a good price is, but it was a certain dollar amount per pound. The thing with used is if you're OCD like me you would want to wash them. Not too hard to do, but it's a chore.
Finally, if you really want to save money don't follow this thread. You'll end up spending more than you wanted.
People here often post sales too.BentBricks
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Lantern, lantern, LANTERN!
The only thing that could make this better is if spacesuit Batman, Green Lantern, and Brainiac was in a $20 set.
If there is no Green Lantern minifig set, that is A BS move by LEGO. <-- see what I did there
Reluctant-Hero
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Finally got started on my Classic Space display items, I was gonna start with a ship but I had a brainfart and was inspired to do a little mech first, here's a WIP, still no arms yet, I was thinking an aliens style claw on one arm and a laser made of transparent red dishes on the other
Oh man, that looks great so far! I'm looking forward to seeing the completed build.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I approve greatly...darnit, you're making me want to buy more old space Lego and pronto!
And that Milano spaceship looks really great, I wasn't thinking about purchasing it before but I want it a lot now.
Purple Cheeto
Member
Tried finding it today... TRU has the x-men set but not GotG, what gives? Hope I can snag them at the LEGO store Sun morning (June 1st), along with Ecto-1... That would make for a very fine day indeed... Not to mention plenty of VIP points.
Incredible work- love some neo-classic space! Are you building any terrain or moon for him to stomp over at all?
SiegfriedFM
Member
Strange, a local webshop has the Bike Shop & Cafe set already, as well as some of the new Chima stuff, even though it's not on S@H yet. Unfortunately no Spaceship.
I shall name her Flapppy Bird.
A lot of the licensed movie stuff like the Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and Lone Ranger sets from last year have really huge, blatant seals that say something like "Do Not Sell Before MM DD, YYYY" on the shipping boxes. I'm guessing the license holder wants to flood the market with ALL the toys/merchandise at the same time.
And yet all these youtube reviewers have no problems getting their hands on it...
Maybe LEGO sent it to all of them? *shrug*Heads up... the Buy 1 Get 1 40% LEGO sale on amazon i posted about earlier JUST NOW hit slickdeals... so a lot of them could sell out soon, get in if you want in.
SillyEskimo
Member
Sorry for the late replay, I just saw this.
I don't remember. I go to http://www.aliexpress.com/ and go with the lowest price for whatever I'm looking for. It's all the same stuff after all
WordAssassin
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And yet all these youtube reviewers have no problems getting their hands on it...
Heads up... the Buy 1 Get 1 40% LEGO sale on amazon i posted about earlier JUST NOW hit slickdeals... so a lot of them could sell out soon, get in if you want in.
Lego stores are selling them already. Sometimes we get big boxes that say "DO NOT SELL UNTIL THIS DATE!" but we also have a New Product Log that supersedes that, and if the NPL says to sell on arrival, then we do. It appears to be on a store-by-store basis, but people reviewing them already likely just got them at a Lego store that was already selling them.
Edit: I should note, and this is my own personal conjecture, that the reason the Lego stores can sell them early based on the log is because all of the boxes that are sent out are the same. TRU, Target, Lego all get the same packages, I assume. So we sell based off our launch list, but other stores have to go off what's on the boxes.
Anytime I hear a LEGO store is selling something early, mine is never among them. It's irritating to know that they can do so without penalty but won't do it, even when they confirm to me they have it in back.
Some consistency would be nice.
I'm in California, there are lots of reviewers in and around my area, including JANG
Anyway I mentioned TRU because that is the retailer i've seen reported selling these on LEGO news sites.
Some consistency would be nice.
I'm in California, there are lots of reviewers in and around my area, including JANG
Anyway I mentioned TRU because that is the retailer i've seen reported selling these on LEGO news sites.
The Lamonster
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LTTP, but I just saw the Lego Movie and it was excellent! Still don't think I'll be getting any of the sets, though.
Although that police dropship looks neat...and I'd love to have a Batman fig...
Although that police dropship looks neat...and I'd love to have a Batman fig...
WordAssassin
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That IS annoying. The only new set we're 100% not allowed to sell until June 1st is the Ecto 1. Where in Cali are you? Maybe each store or region has a different release list?
Bay area, CA. It's fine, i'm used to it It's only a few more days... I guess. Unless something goes wrong. I'm not being impatient just hate unfairness!
WebM time:
http://a.pomf.se/surixs.webm
It's only a few more days... I guess. Unless something goes wrong. I'm not being impatient just hate unfairness!WebM time:
http://a.pomf.se/surixs.webm
Reluctant-Hero
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Bay area, CA. It's fine, i'm used to it
WebM time:
http://a.pomf.se/surixs.webm
Valley Fair or San Mateo?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
So the rumors were correct.
Here is the previous one from 2007, that goes for about $400 now.
Now about the other store exclusive...
Agreed. The old one looks better. But, for all we know, the new one is a better build.
Now where is my UCS Millennium Falcon reissue!?
Make it minifig scale with all the interiors.
So the rumors were correct.
Here is the previous one from 2007, that goes for about $400 now.
The new one looks like a much smaller set. Old one seems to have more SNOT building too.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Original UCS was mini fig scale. But it lacked interiors. If they somehow manage to make a mini fig scale UCS Falcon and give it a full interior, that will be the set of forever. No contest.
So the rumors were correct.
Here is the previous one from 2007, that goes for about $400 now.
Now about the other store exclusive...
man, I was hoping for one like the 2007 version. Guess I'm going to have to bricklink it. The new one looks crappy.
I know that. Thus, the interiors.
Probably impossible without scaling the thing up. Doesn't the original UCS Falcon have sturdy support structure inside? So with interiors, it probably needs to be scaled up to make space for supports. Or to make more space for minifigs as they're not quite proportioned like a real human.
Jables Swan
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Really hope that the winter wave has a lot of the new minifigs from the trailer. The new WW looks great, as does Cyborg... and for the love of god give us an easily obtainable Hal Jordan!
Need those figures to go with my Martian Manhunter and Flash. They all look great. Fingers crossed.
omgomgomg
BentBricks
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Really hope that the winter wave has a lot of the new minifigs from the trailer. The new WW looks great, as does Cyborg... and for the love of god give us an easily obtainable Hal Jordan!
If they make that version of Wonder Woman, that will make the classic version of Wonder Woman in the Superman vs Power Armor Lex set even more valuable. So amazing that the set is still available on LEGO S@H. A testament to it's popularity. Buy it now if you haven't already.
I much prefer the classic Martian Manhunter pictured above. I would love to have that version as well.
Awesome cyborg!
If LEGO does not make a Green Lantern minifig like the one shown...AAAARRRRGH!
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Just give me an entire line of Green Lantern sets. Make a series of blind bags of Lantern Corps. If only the movie were good and successful, we would have gotten that.
WordAssassin
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Went to work real quick to grab a couple keychains for my folks, walked out with Metalbeard's Duel. Whoops.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
So the rumors were correct.
Here is the previous one from 2007, that goes for about $400 now.
Now about the other store exclusive...
New one looks "budget"... :/
The Lamonster
Member
Agreed. Not nearly as cool!
WordAssassin
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We've been out of it for weeks and had no clue if it'd ever come back - Lord Business' Evil Lair was OOS for over two months and we actually didn't expect to get any back in ever. So when my coworker said "We got Metalbeard's-" I didn't even let him finish before grabbing it, heh.What a shame, you now have a mech with a shark for an arm.
So I felt good enough to put together a set today and I decided to finally tackle
So it is done, here is my entire collection of Galaxy Squad
How did this happen?? I swore of this series when it first popped up but, just look! Let this be word of caution to those new to Lego GAF, this is what will happen to you.
Oh, I also go my booty legs from china.
Not bad at all. I didn't get the boxes i've seen them come in but I can't complain about that for $8 bucks and free shipping from China. My Venom has extremely loose legs, he will fall over at any touch or jiggle but I have a real one so thats no biggie. Got it for the Green Arrow and Winter Soldier which are both excellent. Odin's not bad either.
And yes I chased my cat around a little bit with it. She did not like it.
So it is done, here is my entire collection of Galaxy Squad
How did this happen?? I swore of this series when it first popped up but, just look! Let this be word of caution to those new to Lego GAF, this is what will happen to you.
Oh, I also go my booty legs from china.
Not bad at all. I didn't get the boxes i've seen them come in but I can't complain about that for $8 bucks and free shipping from China. My Venom has extremely loose legs, he will fall over at any touch or jiggle but I have a real one so thats no biggie. Got it for the Green Arrow and Winter Soldier which are both excellent. Odin's not bad either.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Hive Crawler. The bane of house cats everywhere.
antiquegamer
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I know you are very passionate and want to get things first but sometimes I think you just seems a bit .. well too crazy about getting these LEGO first. They are not limited edition or even hard to find, so I guess my question is why is it so important to get it 3 days before. I remember reading your post about running around looking for those Simpson mini-figs. Are you a reviewer and competing with other contents maker? If so then I can understand perfectly. I have (still do but it's pretty dormant now) toys site that was dedicate to niche Japanese action-figures and it was nice to have items first and put the pictures up for review. I often paid crazy EMS shipping to get them sooner and if that's the case then I perfectly understand.
Each store set their own guideline even if they are chain store like LEGO. The company sometime would dictate what get put out and when but many of the none-date items are up to manager discretion depending on the area. Perhaps they have other stocks they want to move, certain merchandise to rotate or even to prevent hording and scalpers. I don't find it strange that LEGO would leave some store manager discretion when it come to merchandise. Not all set sell well in all area, there are other factor such as demographic make up of the region etc. (Yes I use to be in retail business).
wait wat! I thought I had more time than this to get all the movie sets. It would be rediculous if they are already gone for good. Id be soo mad.
I don't think there'll be any sets based on the new game, there will be a new minifig preorder bonus though but there won't be any new moulds used, just existing ones, so perhaps there's a chance of a different wonder woman or an actual green lantern (my hope)
Hopefully it's not "Space Batman"
Hopefully it's not "Space Batman"
I want a Bat Spaceman
PalaceBrother
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Let's play nice
In Zulithe's defense I totally get sucked up into "new set hype" when something hits the shelves too. Wasn't interested in the XMen set but now that it's in the wild? Added to my Brickset wanted list.
Case in point: I'm flying out for work at 7am on June 1st. Do you know how irrationally stressed I am that I'll somehow never get the Ecto 1? It's unhealthy man!